February 15, 2025 • 31 mins
Mark Simone fills in for Sean and takes to analyzing just how crazy the liberal left is going over DOGE and the efforts to cut costs in Washington.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, we're gonna talk about Elon Musk. Can you imagine
if you decided to get rid of government waste, fraud
and bloat like every candidate has promised forever, that you'd
get attacked. Listen to these crazy democrats here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the
American people.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We are here to fight back.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Anytime a person can paid two hundred and fifty million
dollars into a campaign and they've be given access for
access to the Department of Treasury of the United States
of America, we are a more.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I am gonna stand with you in this fight and
we will win.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
We are we well win.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We well win. We will win. We well win. We
we will rest. We won't rest id like a New
York at a nuthouse. I was at a mental institution.
So anyway, Hey, you know what's with us right now
is Eric Eggers, who's a VP of the Government Accountability
(01:11):
Institute co host of the Drill Down podcast. He does
it with Peter Schweitzer. Every week they break down the
expose regulation bureaucracy, and this week they've been covering Doze
and a Democratic freak out from their podcast and he's
with us right now. Eric Eggers, how are you, Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I am great. I mean I'm as great as anybody
could be, considering we are suffering under a historically unprecedented
constitutional crisis. You heard Elizabeth Warren, you heard Chuck Schumritz.
Obviously you know, democracy was on the ballot and we've
clearly lost. And can you imagine, Mark, a world in
which someone that's not elected has so much power. Oh wait,
(01:50):
that's exactly what happened for four years under Joe Biden,
because he clearly wasn't in charge, he wasn't cognitively fit.
They chose just to lie to us. But meanwhile, the
people behind and the curtains ran the country into the ground.
Thank god, Donald trumpet Elon Musk has come to save it.
And I think that's what you're hearing people react to.
It's like we talked about this on the podcast. You know,
when you have surgery, your body is reacting in a
(02:13):
certain way, but it's reacting in a healthy way because
the things that were unhealthy are being removed from the body.
That's what's happening to this country right now. The unhealthy spending,
the insane priorities, the Democrats have foisted upon the American
people against their will for so long, are being eradicated
and eliminated. And that's why you see the left freaking out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like this, well in their defense, and it's not just
a digress of the Republicans too, all these swamp guys
and the women in the Congress, this is kind of
what they do for a living, hand out massive contracts
to donors, special interests, and in exchange they get massive
donations and votes, and so talk about stepping on the
(02:55):
third rail, about really hitting a nerve. This is going
to destroy this swamp creature's business model, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, Mark, that's actually an excellent point. It's like that
seen an office space where like the consultants come in
to say, so, what is it exactly you would say
you do here? To your point, if the elected leaders
and members of the deep state no longer have our
tax dollars to hand out, what exactly do they do here?
They don't do a lot, so very much their life,
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their livelihoods, their job descriptions are up for grabs, and
I think it's it's fair to ask, like, well, why
do we need all these people? Not just why do
we need you? How have you been allowed to be
in charge to allow things like twenty million dollars for
Stephane Street in Iraq, two million dollars for VR program
for the military to train our soldiers, how to have
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hard conversations about DEI all the LGBT and trans stuff
that we're finding out that we're spending all.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Across the globe.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Why have we allowed the people who are supposed to
up uphold the American priorities and principles and in fiduciary
responsibility for our tax dollars to get away with this stuff.
It's absolutely abhorrent.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know at the swamp. So I guess through the years,
the presidents that come in the bushes, the Clinton's, I guess,
I mean, they must have known all this. What was
the deal? They just knew, you know, do your thing
and look the other way on that stuff and don't
bother that that's part of the deal. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, absolutely, I mean, so think about this Mark. You know,
we did a special one time about how wealthy Washington,
d C. Has become. It didn't used to be that way.
In the eighties, Washingt d C. Was kind of this
sleepy backwater town. And then to your point, the Clintons,
the Bushes, the money came in and took over. And
then it was true for some time that seven out
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of the ten wealthiest counties in the country surrounded Washington
d C. It had become like out of Hunger Games,
like the capital that was so out of touch because
they just collected the fruits of the rest of the country.
Washington C led the country in wine consumption per capita
and all kinds of other crazy stats. I had a
guy who worked at a Ferrari dealers should tell me
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that they get in trouble because too many of their
clients pay cash for expensive luxury cars. So Washington C
has taken all of our money and they use it
when and when you're drunk with money, then things like
the way they've been spending it makes sense. And so yeah,
they bipartisan problem. But the debt has continued to go
up regardless of who the president has been. Spending has
continued to go up. And yeah, everyone's been in on it,
(05:27):
and I think it actually helps make sense. Mark, And
I know you've talked about this before, but when you
consider the historically unprecedented steps the left hooks to try
to keep Donald Trump from being elected. Everything from the
suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, so then the
way we allowed the election in twenty twenty to happen,
and then the legal cases the Biden Department of Justice brought,
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and then you know, the assassination attempts, and then when
all that didn't work, then it's like, oh, my gosh,
let's actually go ahead and just take out the most
powerful man in the world, the President. I say it,
let's to make him stop running re election against his
will because we don't think he can beat Trump. They
threw everything at him that they could. And when you
look at how he's upending the ecosystem of Washington, DC
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and how many different people have relied on it, you
understand why.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hey, Eric Egers, tell us about Elon Musk, this team
that he has. You know, you hear this guy's nineteen,
this guy's twenty. Who exactly is on this team that
he's using.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we're finding out more about it. And I think
while you hear the left claim that oh, this is
all done without transparency, I think the ops is actually true, right.
I mean, you have they have a website, so we
see all the contracts they're looking at it. But he's
got these nineteen year old of course, there's a kid
named Big Bonell who has you know, a bit of
a checker at history. But these are very intelligent data whizzes,
computer science experts who know how to analyze high volumes
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of data and be able to figure out where the
spending is. I mean, I guess, Mark, here's the question,
like it's fair to ask, okay, is do you want
nineteen and twenty year old to have unfettered access to
the stuff. But it's not like the nineteen and twenty
year olds are the ones making the decisions. I think
they're highlighting the problems, and then it's the actual agency heads.
It's the cabinet head of the people who are in
charge of these agencies. They're the ones making decisions Okay,
(07:07):
we want to cut this, we want to don't cut that.
So it's not like these elon musk castports have unilateral
authority to do that. They're highlighting the things, they're making
the recommendations, and then the wheels of government are actually
working as they should. You heard Tete Hegg said say, listen,
we welcome the scrutiny of doge. Okay, we don't think
it's going to impact our actual ability to war fight,
but we think it will impact things like the climate
(07:28):
change initiative. Actually, when he said that, Mark I looked
it up in twenty twenty two, there's a climate change
initiative for the Department of Defense. In twenty twenty two,
their budget was like six hundred something million. Last year
was over two billion dollars, I think. And it's stupid,
but that's where our tax dollars has been going and
everyone's just sort of okay with it. And thank goodness,
we've got these young with cases to help highlight those problems.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So when they say that, oh, but Elon Musk has
access to our data, social security and them, what is
the big fear that the guy with four hundred billion
is going to do identity theft? What's the problem.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Is it gonna fish us like some Nigerian print. Yeah,
I mean anybody with a Gmail account has already given
up their access to their private data. So yeah, it's
ludicrous and I think it just speaks too. I mean
I actually heard yesterday Jen Saki. She went on John
Stewart's podcast, and this is how out of touch those
people are. They talked about Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn
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as being part of this immedia ecosystem and this echo
Champer and Johnson was like, those are just comedians. Just
because they happened to talk to Donald Trump doesn't make
them part of the right wing ecosystem. But that's just
anything Trump connected the left loses their mind over. And
I thought that was just a great example of why.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, so Musk was originally talking about saving a trillion
dollars at the end of this what do you think
maybe even more? And if he does, doesn't that mean
we could cut federal taxes almost in half.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
No, absolutely, Why would we be against cutting wasteful spending?
I mean, you hear this phrase waste, fraud and abuse.
You know, I did a book about voter fraud and
it came out in twenty eighteen. But one of the
things we talked about is how many fraudulent voter registrations
there exist. And that's like, not in dispute, you know,
it's the Supreme Court Stata statistics and said one out
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of eight and voter registration airror, you know, pales in
comparison things like social security fraud and welfare fraud and
abuse and you heard actually people testify about that this
week in Washington, DC as the first ever those hearings.
So I don't know who could or should be against
wasteful spending on money that should go to the needy
and the senior citizens and the people that need the most.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
All waste, fraud and abuse does is in peril our
ability to actually take care of our social contracts for
people that should be unwelfare as people that need social Security.
And it's a classic example of Donald Trump's genius. He
takes these eighty twenty issues. Eighty percent of the country said, yeah,
we should only spend money on people that should get it.
And these people are like, look, we're spending lots of money.
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People are taking COVID night they shouldn't get it, people
are taking welfare and when they shouldn't get it. And
the left freaks out about that too, and that's why
they have no credibility, and that's why they're losing the arguments.
And that's what the American people are on the side
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, Eric here is great talking to you. Gonna hear
his podcast. It's great, it's the Drill Down podcast, and
you can hear it it's him and the Peter Schweitzer.
It's every week and keep up the good work. We'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Thanks Art, always great to be with you. You can
podcast at the drill down dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
All right, the drill down dot com the drill down
dot com and we'll take some calls in a minute.
One eight hundred nine to one, Sean is the number.
One eight hundred nine four one Sewan. It's Mark Simone
here for Sean Hanny. You can find my podcast everywhere.
I heart Apple, Spotify, any place you get podcasts, and
I don't forget Handity. Tonight, nine o'clock Fox News Channel. Hey,
(10:48):
welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. We'll
take some calls. Let's go to uh Tommy in Texas. Tommy,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Hey, good afternoon. Thank you for taking Mark. I you know,
there's a lot of corruption, there's a lot of I
guess misspending and waste and abuse that's been uncovered. My
idea is, why don't we get the government Elon Musk
and his crew to hire fifty hundred two hundred forensic
accountants and start looking back in time and come up
(11:20):
with some real accurate numbers on yes, the broadened abuse
that they've already found, how far back it goes, and
who's involved.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Let's put some of these.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
People in jail.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now, let's just get him out of there. Let's just
find the money plot back if you can, throw them
the hell out of the government to make sure it
doesn't happen again. But thanks for calling Tommy. Forensic accountants
are good, But you know, i'd go with these nineteen
year olds, these Elon Musk guys, these big balls and
these that's his name, that's what he called himself online.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
But I have to say we all know that he
called himself that because in the hopes of one day
someone knowing who he was and having to do exactly
what we're doing on live radio and TV.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did that because he was because he's nineteen. Well at
the time he did that, he's probably fifteen six whatever.
That's what you do when you're fifteen sixteen. So I
don't know if you know that Elon must change his.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Fifteen year old Mark Simon did that, He's like, hey, what's.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Up, how are I Well, you know, back then there
was no Twitter. Uh so, but what we did, we
all made terrible Frank phone calls where we made up
a name. But Elon must change his name on Twitter
the other day for one day. Did you know that
I did? Yeah, he changed his name to Harry Bowles
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bo l Z and he did that just so on
CNN they would have to say.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It's like, if you want to talk about me and
you want to show my posts, you are going to have.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
To show it all.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. Yeah, I was just looking at the screen. There's
a CNN we have, every station is up there. This
Jake Tapper is on there. This guy looks so mad,
he's fuming. Is it classes? They're all fogged up?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
They look so you know why they're angry because Sean
Hannity got to go to Washington, DC interview Elon Musk,
interview President Trump, sit in the Oval Office.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And get the truth.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And by the way, for those of you listening, Sean's
interview is going to air next week on Hannity at
nine on.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
The Fox News Channel Tuesday night. Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I think, knowing Sean and the President, both of them
love to talk, I'm assuming it'll be.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Tuesday and on Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Oh okay, yeah, Plus you got Elon in there, and
Elon also likes to talk you three of them together,
forget about it. But yeah, next week and they're mad
because they don't have access.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well they can know, you know, they have acces. Trump
loves to talk to these people. They'll talk to Kate like.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Biden, you know, who read from a que card and
didn't know anybody's name. I mean, it's a completely different presidency.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah. I just love the You're not supposed to do this,
but I actually put it on MSNBC sometimes just I
love watching them all riled up there, so angry, so mad,
so enraged. And you know, people watch MSNBC, they think
it's like a news netw it's not. Rachel Maddow getting
a lot of flak for Wednesday Night, she did this
(14:06):
twenty minute expose on how they secretly gave a contract
to Tesla worth four hundred million and Elon Musk was
handed this contract for four hundred million. You know, the
guy's worth four hundred and four billion dollars. Four hundred
million is like a tenth of a penny to him.
It doesn't mean anything. So she went to this for
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twelve minutes, the whole segment on this contract. Next day,
everybody's pointing out the contract was signed by Anthony Blink
and it was a Biden administration contract. They're delivering some
of the cars now, but the contract was given out
in November last year, that Trump wasn't even president.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Let's see, this is the problem, right, The details don't matter.
They get the headline. It's all they care about. They
get people pissed off, and then they find out, oh,
by the way, we were full of it. It's like
when she had Trump's tax returns. Yeah, Mike, how what
was that?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Like?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Two days of tea and up and then you get
there it's like big flat and nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah. Remember how important it was to see Trump's We
had to audit Trump's taxes, the most important thing on earth.
But if you want to audit the government, you're hitler.
You're not allowed to look.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Well, that was the best part.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Trump was hitler during the entire campaign. And then all
of a sudden they're like, yeah, come to the White
House have tea with me and Jill.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I'm like, oh, is that what you do with it
with a terrorist? Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I mean the whole thing. You know, your liberal friends,
you get crazy arguing with them. It's not their fault there.
What they think MSNBC is like a news network because
they look and they got glasses, they got bow ties.
They think it looks like a set, like a news
it's not. It's just crazy propaganda. Anyway, we'll take some
more calls in a minute. Eight hundred and nine for
one Sean. Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Follow me
(15:40):
on Instagram. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. And as we said,
Sean is off today's big interview with Donald Trump and
Elon Musk. You'll see it Tuesday on Hannity Tuesday night. Hey,
it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. We'll take some calls.
Eight hundred nine for to one. Sean is the number.
Eight hundred one Sean. President Trump heading tomorrow Lago for
(16:03):
the weekend, will be at the Daytona five hundred A
long week, worked very, very hard. It's fascinating to watch
these Democrats. You think they're smart, you know, they're maybe
annoying and horrible, but Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and
those types, you don't think they're really really stupid, but
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they must be. And whoever was running the Biden White House,
hopefully one day we'll find out you look back on
how dumb they were about everything. You know, it turns
out now we found out today that President Trump has
the mug shot framed and it's up in the White House.
Right outside the Oval Office. As you walk into the
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Oval Office, the blue hallway where you come in, in
a big gold frame, there's the mug shot and that's
the entrance the press uses, all the press have to
come in and see the mug shot. But he's so
proud of that thing. And if you go back and
study this carefully, that was the turning point. You know,
there was a period there would look like Ron DeSantis
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will be the nominee of the name Nikki Haleey will
be the nominee. It was the mugshot that just turned
it around. That's where he started to really climbing the polls.
The mug shot did the trick. What were you people
thinking with that law fair with the mug shot And
even last night MSNBC they claimed without evidence that Biden
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wasn't behind it. Without evidence, Biden's top guy in the
Justice Department left the Justice Farm to come run the
case in New York. He personally, he did the opening argument.
He questioned the witnesses that disgusting. Georgia Bunch. What's the
guy's name, Fannie Willis?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Is Willis up?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The guy? He was in the White House. Nathan Wade
put down two eight hour meetings in the White House.
That's not evidence that you.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Can't recall, though, Mark, you can't recall did you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Go to a cabin with miss Willis?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Ever?
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Ever?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Some of our best word of.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A soul.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I got you no, never, no.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
But it's almost a whole chorus. It took him to
say no, just for the listeners.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Of course, there's four hundred pictures of them in the cabin.
It's on Instagram. They're in the cabin, They're all over
the cabin. And if I were those two, I would
go hide somewhere in a cabin. Don't don't bother anybody.
But this guy was in the White House. Two eight
hour meetings. Have you ever been in an eight hour
meeting in your life? Ever? For anything? An eight hour meeting?
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Now meeting, if it's how long is it ten minutes,
fifteen minutes, If it's something really big, it could be
an hour? What is an eight hour meeting? There was
no no coordinating it was an eight hour meeting, so well,
it will take some calls. Eight hundred and nine one,
Shawn is number. Let's go to Josie, Kansas City MAJORI Josie,
(19:19):
how you doing.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm doing good. Thank you for taking my call. So
I just have cheap points. Oh oh, everyone's talking about
this and that and up and down every which way,
but no one's mentioning Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Let's keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Woman who's still dishes from the White House. He left
the White House, Bill Clinton, you know, the whole corruption issue,
and then what happened after she lost the election? So
is she going to get investigated now?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, yeah, liver alone. You know, she's like that old
woman in Sunset Boulevard, you know, at home drunk, plotting
some kind of comeback. It's never gonna happen. We don't
need to go after it.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Why does every woman you talk about sound so terrible?
The women at Mara Largo, the women on Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, the movie Sunset Bulevard to play, remember, no, Shaun,
I remember that the audience remember. Yeah. It was one
of the greatest movies ever and it was a big
Broadway show. Forever. Actually, I think it just reopened on Broadway.
But it was about an old, old year old old
movie star who'd been like from the Silent movie days
and plotting this comeback that looked absolutely ridiculous. Bill Clinton,
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you know, this guy was the greatest, slickest politician orator.
President Hillary never made it. First time she runs. First
time she runs, a total beginner novice. Barack Obama comes
out of nowhere and takes the nomination from her. Second
time she runs, a total amateur, has never been in politics,
beats her. It's great. Every time Bill Clinton comes in
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the house looks at her, he must just go anyway.
Let's go to James in Florida. James, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I want you to know that I am very disappointed
in you. Mark what you just said? Leave her alone?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, leave her alone.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
I'll let you know right now. America wants accountability and
justice every time that we get these people who are
in office. They got enough lawyers that are going to
keep them out of jail till they die.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
All right, let's go after Elizabeth Warren, though, Chuck Schumer,
these people, Let's get them.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
How come you backing them up? That's all I wanted
to say, and have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All right, you should be a Democrat. You got that
angry kind of you. Guy should be on CNN.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Angry though he's nice, angry you don't have a nice day.
All I don't argue with anybody who says have a
nice day. It ends in a very different way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'll tell you that have a nice day. Don't tell
me what to do. I'll have a bad day if
I want. Let's go to Greg in Oceanside, California. Greg,
how you doing?
Speaker 8 (21:55):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How you doing? Let me check? Not bad? Not bad?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
That's good. Yeah I'm not here, no since id right
next to Camp Penalty where we get that uh thunder
of freedom from the base.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But uh, well that's good because.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Well, you know, when they're doing that big artillery firing,
it's up over there, the windows shaking, the booms go
really oh yeah, everybody around here here is that. You know,
they got the big artillery. You know, when they're doing
maneuvers and the practice and everything, it really gets the
windows shaken, and especially when they're doing late night stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Okay, what do you want to say?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Greg? Yeah? I was calling up because earlier callers said
that these people that if they found that, if you
followed the government, you know, got kicked backs and stuff. Yeah,
they should actually go for those people and put them
in jail. And I think the same thing because you know,
someday the Democrats will be back in power and if
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they don't see any repercussions from having you know, people
throwing over the stuff to go right back to their
own plane.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, that's a very good point. That's a good point. Yeah,
if they took kickback to anything like, of course they
should be prosecuted, be in jail. But a lot of them,
you gotta remember, this is what they do for a living.
Congressmen and women. It's a lot of Democrats, it's a
lot of Republicans too. You know. What they do is
they give out these contracts. They know they're overpaying. You know,
for instance, it costs forty thousand a mile to pave
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a highway. We spend a million a mile. They do
this all the time. You know, you hear the Pentagon
bought a screwdriver for one thousand dollars. They know it's
that way, but they deliberately overpay. Everybody give out these contracts.
In exchange they're getting massive donations for their campaign, they're
getting votes, they're getting all kinds of stuff. You know,
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Donald Trump, when he first became president, first term, just
as he's coming in, it turns out air Force one
is getting a new Air Force one. They're making the plane,
and they send them the bill and it's like seven billion,
which is uh, overcharging like crazy. But that's what you
do every time, and nobody says a word. Well, think
about this. They didn't realize for the first time in history,
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the guy that just got elected has bought fifteen planes
in his lifetime. He knows exactly what they cost. The
guy owned an airline once, an actual airline that's Trump Shuttle.
He knows exactly what planes costs. He starts looking through
the itemized bill, calls up the chairman of Boeing and
said seven billion. I see three billion here.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Let's see this is the difference.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So you have Trump and you have maybe like a
handful of senators and a handful of congressmen that have
actually had private professions, whether they're doctors, the lawyers, they've
owned private business. You know, we had a congressman on
here once his family owned like a chain of grocery stores.
He actually knew the cost of food, how much it took,
you know, to bring it in, to sell it, so
on and so forth.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Many of these people, you.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Know, Schumer, Pelosi, Kennedy, you know, you know, these are
people that have been at McConnell. I mean, he's the worst.
And it's like for me, it's like, you know, it's
us against them in the sense that whether they're Dems
or Republicans, if they're not working for the will of
the people, then they're working against the will of.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The what in their defense Schumer. Guys like Schumer is
in the business of donor favors. This is all he does.
All there's a creep creep donor.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Is a lifelong favor lifelong politicians, and he's not in
the business of favors.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
He is in the business of whatever makes Chucky Schumer's
bank account bigger.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, that's what it is. Every donor, even though I
hate to say it, even Republican donors here in New York,
they'll tell you, I said, what do you keep supporting Schumer?
Because I could wake that guy up at three in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
He'll do what I asked him anything, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
And that's what they do. You see this microphone electro
voice are I certainly here are twenty. I'd say this
costs about three hundred and fifty dollars. Now if the
government bought this microphone six thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
You know what's so funny?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Do you remember when Michelle Obama was running the you know,
the healthcare dot of and shape was taking all those bids,
and they took the bid for like the highest bid,
and it turned out that it was like, you know,
her cousin's sons, uncle's grandmother or whatever.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
I'm like, all right, you know what I mean? Like
I could have had a college student build up for
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like stop, even if it even work now, even the
hotel rooms for the oligis. You know, if you book
a hotel, let's say you're having your wedding and you
call the hotel, we like to book twenty rooms. You
get a rate it's like half price. You know, if
you're a big corporation, if it's one thousand dollars a night,
you're paying two fifty at night. Because you're a big corporation,
you buy lots of hotel rooms. When they took the
entire hotel in New York for the migrants. A musk
(26:32):
uncovered this. They actually paid double the normal rate. They're
buying the whole hotel for a year, every room that's
the special rate. Double them.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
But this is what's happening here in New York. I mean,
look at what the comptroller just came out and said, Yeah,
they're charging at you know, double their prices at the
Roosevelt Hotel, which once was a beautiful hotel.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yeah, oh my god. And now it's run down. It's
migrant city. It's disgusting, and it's run on forty fifth
Madison and one of the most beautiful aparts Manhattan. And
now you got what hotel rooms that probably should go
cost I don't know, somewhere between five and six hundred
bucks a night for a really nice room, and now
you're paying, you know, four thousand because.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You're milking the government.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Absolutely, absolutely the Roosevelt Hotel. If you ever watch the
show mad Men, that's the hotel they were always going
to the ballroom of this d I used.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
To be the house band there. I used to play
there every weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, Roosevelt Hotel Hotel. There was a singer in all
those bands I was good bye.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Go by the Roosevelt. Now there's laundry hanging out the window.
It is awful, awful. Anyway, we'll take some calls in
a minute. Eight hundred and three to two one, Sean.
Mark Simone here. You follow me on Instagram, It's uh
Mark Simone. And when I see at Instagram, we can
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forget Hannity tonight nine o'clock and the big interview with
Trump and Musk. Sean just did it. It's gonna air
(27:51):
Tuesday night at nine Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Okay,
it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Eight hundred nine
one on is the number, eight hundred nine four one, Sean.
Let's go to uh Neil Brooklyn, New York. Neil. How
you doing?
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Mark?
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I mean you could help me with this. I searched
the internet. I can't get an answer to it. When
when the election ended on the fifth or the sixth
of November, was Trump holding a majority of the popular
vote or not?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah? Yeah, you won the popular vote.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
So okay, I know there was some lesser candidates that
draw off some votes. But it's a talking point for
the left now that he doesn't he never won the majority.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well, that's what they do. They make up all kinds
of stuff, bloodbaths, Charlottesville, they make up stuff. That's what
they do in the left.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Do you think they padded Kamala's votes after the fifth
and the sixth?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And you know, well in that in California, believe it
or not, the laws are so crazy in California, after
the election's over, you're allowed to send in l in
votes for up to a week and they don't have
to be signed or have an address on them. So
they did pat it there and they also stole probably
a couple of House seats that way. But no, Trump
won the popular vote. But if you watch MSNBC or
(29:14):
CNN New York Times, well you'll see a lot of
false information happens all the time.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, how many times did you watch the strongest
toughest border bill ever? Did you ever read that bill?
There was nothing tough in that bill.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
In fact, the border is secure.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, that border bill made the remember what it was
like under Biden five thousand a day crossing? It made
that permit.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
What was worse was when they said where are the children?
And may Orcus and Bessarah both said.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
And then you had Tom Tiffany who actually had the
cojones to actually say to Bessara, do you know that
you are sending illegal immigrant small children to rothels, two
prostitutes to pimps to be sex trafficked. You're actually doing it.
You are the biggest consumer. And he's like, uh uh uh,
I do not have an answer for this.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Into this it's all bs.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You notice those guys are all hiding him. Whence the
last time you saw it with Christopher ray My orchest
are all hiding what happened to Joe Biden? This guy.
I just don't think you'll ever see this guy again.
I'll never come out of his house again. Remember that
was that movie two thousand and one, A Space Obyssee.
He's that old guy at the end.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Oh, I thought you're gonna say weekend a Bernie's. I
was going on a different.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Weekend at Bernie's. It's a good day for him. You'll
never see that.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
He is always on the beach facing the other way.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Although he's got a book deal, believe it or not.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh, my god, was he writing in a crayon? Give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's a way of paying him off. You get a
book deal and uh, presidential library. We'll remind me to
talk about this the Nextor where should Trump have his
presidential library? Biden is supposed to have one, but they
can't raise any money. Nobody will get any money for it,
so they're talking about maybe a bookmobile or something. Can't
raise a penny for his library.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
You should talk to Zelenski. I hear they're close.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah. Oh, we'll get to that in the next hour too.
What's going on with Ukraine? We'll get to the hostages
and more. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Sean
don't forget Watch Hannity tonight, nine o'clock Fox News Channels,
Hey, we're gonna talk about Elon Musk. Can you imagine
if you decided to get rid of government waste, fraud
and bloat like every candidate has promised forever, that you'd
get attacked. Listen to these crazy democrats here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Elon Musk is seizing the power that belongs to the
American people.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
We are here to fight back.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Anytime a person can paid two hundred and fifty million
dollars into a campaign and they've be given access for
access to the Department of Treasury of the United States
of America, we are a more.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
I am gonna stand with you in this fight and
we will win.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
We are we well win.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
We well win. We will win. We well win. We
we will rest. We won't rest id like a New
York at a nuthouse. I was at a mental institution.
So anyway, Hey, you know what's with us right now
is Eric Eggers, who's a VP of the Government Accountability
(01:11):
Institute co host of the Drill Down podcast. He does
it with Peter Schweitzer. Every week they break down the
expose regulation bureaucracy, and this week they've been covering Doze
and a Democratic freak out from their podcast and he's
with us right now. Eric Eggers, how are you, Mark?
Speaker 4 (01:28):
I am great. I mean I'm as great as anybody
could be, considering we are suffering under a historically unprecedented
constitutional crisis. You heard Elizabeth Warren, you heard Chuck Schumritz.
Obviously you know, democracy was on the ballot and we've
clearly lost. And can you imagine, Mark, a world in
which someone that's not elected has so much power. Oh wait,
(01:50):
that's exactly what happened for four years under Joe Biden,
because he clearly wasn't in charge, he wasn't cognitively fit.
They chose just to lie to us. But meanwhile, the
people behind and the curtains ran the country into the ground.
Thank god, Donald trumpet Elon Musk has come to save it.
And I think that's what you're hearing people react to.
It's like we talked about this on the podcast. You know,
when you have surgery, your body is reacting in a
(02:13):
certain way, but it's reacting in a healthy way because
the things that were unhealthy are being removed from the body.
That's what's happening to this country right now. The unhealthy spending,
the insane priorities, the Democrats have foisted upon the American
people against their will for so long, are being eradicated
and eliminated. And that's why you see the left freaking out.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Like this, well in their defense, and it's not just
a digress of the Republicans too, all these swamp guys
and the women in the Congress, this is kind of
what they do for a living, hand out massive contracts
to donors, special interests, and in exchange they get massive
donations and votes, and so talk about stepping on the
(02:55):
third rail, about really hitting a nerve. This is going
to destroy this swamp creature's business model, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
No, Mark, that's actually an excellent point. It's like that
seen an office space where like the consultants come in
to say, so, what is it exactly you would say
you do here? To your point, if the elected leaders
and members of the deep state no longer have our
tax dollars to hand out, what exactly do they do here?
They don't do a lot, so very much their life,
(03:24):
their livelihoods, their job descriptions are up for grabs, and
I think it's it's fair to ask, like, well, why
do we need all these people? Not just why do
we need you? How have you been allowed to be
in charge to allow things like twenty million dollars for
Stephane Street in Iraq, two million dollars for VR program
for the military to train our soldiers, how to have
(03:46):
hard conversations about DEI all the LGBT and trans stuff
that we're finding out that we're spending all.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
Across the globe.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Why have we allowed the people who are supposed to
up uphold the American priorities and principles and in fiduciary
responsibility for our tax dollars to get away with this stuff.
It's absolutely abhorrent.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know at the swamp. So I guess through the years,
the presidents that come in the bushes, the Clinton's, I guess,
I mean, they must have known all this. What was
the deal? They just knew, you know, do your thing
and look the other way on that stuff and don't
bother that that's part of the deal. Right.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, absolutely, I mean, so think about this Mark. You know,
we did a special one time about how wealthy Washington,
d C. Has become. It didn't used to be that way.
In the eighties, Washingt d C. Was kind of this
sleepy backwater town. And then to your point, the Clintons,
the Bushes, the money came in and took over. And
then it was true for some time that seven out
(04:44):
of the ten wealthiest counties in the country surrounded Washington
d C. It had become like out of Hunger Games,
like the capital that was so out of touch because
they just collected the fruits of the rest of the country.
Washington C led the country in wine consumption per capita
and all kinds of other crazy stats. I had a
guy who worked at a Ferrari dealers should tell me
(05:05):
that they get in trouble because too many of their
clients pay cash for expensive luxury cars. So Washington C
has taken all of our money and they use it
when and when you're drunk with money, then things like
the way they've been spending it makes sense. And so yeah,
they bipartisan problem. But the debt has continued to go
up regardless of who the president has been. Spending has
continued to go up. And yeah, everyone's been in on it,
(05:27):
and I think it actually helps make sense. Mark, And
I know you've talked about this before, but when you
consider the historically unprecedented steps the left hooks to try
to keep Donald Trump from being elected. Everything from the
suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, so then the
way we allowed the election in twenty twenty to happen,
and then the legal cases the Biden Department of Justice brought,
(05:48):
and then you know, the assassination attempts, and then when
all that didn't work, then it's like, oh, my gosh,
let's actually go ahead and just take out the most
powerful man in the world, the President. I say it,
let's to make him stop running re election against his
will because we don't think he can beat Trump. They
threw everything at him that they could. And when you
look at how he's upending the ecosystem of Washington, DC
(06:09):
and how many different people have relied on it, you
understand why.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Hey, Eric Egers, tell us about Elon Musk, this team
that he has. You know, you hear this guy's nineteen,
this guy's twenty. Who exactly is on this team that
he's using.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we're finding out more about it. And I think
while you hear the left claim that oh, this is
all done without transparency, I think the ops is actually true, right.
I mean, you have they have a website, so we
see all the contracts they're looking at it. But he's
got these nineteen year old of course, there's a kid
named Big Bonell who has you know, a bit of
a checker at history. But these are very intelligent data whizzes,
computer science experts who know how to analyze high volumes
(06:46):
of data and be able to figure out where the
spending is. I mean, I guess, Mark, here's the question,
like it's fair to ask, okay, is do you want
nineteen and twenty year old to have unfettered access to
the stuff. But it's not like the nineteen and twenty
year olds are the ones making the decisions. I think
they're highlighting the problems, and then it's the actual agency heads.
It's the cabinet head of the people who are in
charge of these agencies. They're the ones making decisions Okay,
(07:07):
we want to cut this, we want to don't cut that.
So it's not like these elon musk castports have unilateral
authority to do that. They're highlighting the things, they're making
the recommendations, and then the wheels of government are actually
working as they should. You heard Tete Hegg said say, listen,
we welcome the scrutiny of doge. Okay, we don't think
it's going to impact our actual ability to war fight,
but we think it will impact things like the climate
(07:28):
change initiative. Actually, when he said that, Mark I looked
it up in twenty twenty two, there's a climate change
initiative for the Department of Defense. In twenty twenty two,
their budget was like six hundred something million. Last year
was over two billion dollars, I think. And it's stupid,
but that's where our tax dollars has been going and
everyone's just sort of okay with it. And thank goodness,
we've got these young with cases to help highlight those problems.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So when they say that, oh, but Elon Musk has
access to our data, social security and them, what is
the big fear that the guy with four hundred billion
is going to do identity theft? What's the problem.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Is it gonna fish us like some Nigerian print. Yeah,
I mean anybody with a Gmail account has already given
up their access to their private data. So yeah, it's
ludicrous and I think it just speaks too. I mean
I actually heard yesterday Jen Saki. She went on John
Stewart's podcast, and this is how out of touch those
people are. They talked about Joe Rogan and Theo Vaughn
(08:22):
as being part of this immedia ecosystem and this echo
Champer and Johnson was like, those are just comedians. Just
because they happened to talk to Donald Trump doesn't make
them part of the right wing ecosystem. But that's just
anything Trump connected the left loses their mind over. And
I thought that was just a great example of why.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yeah, so Musk was originally talking about saving a trillion
dollars at the end of this what do you think
maybe even more? And if he does, doesn't that mean
we could cut federal taxes almost in half.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
No, absolutely, Why would we be against cutting wasteful spending?
I mean, you hear this phrase waste, fraud and abuse.
You know, I did a book about voter fraud and
it came out in twenty eighteen. But one of the
things we talked about is how many fraudulent voter registrations
there exist. And that's like, not in dispute, you know,
it's the Supreme Court Stata statistics and said one out
(09:14):
of eight and voter registration airror, you know, pales in
comparison things like social security fraud and welfare fraud and
abuse and you heard actually people testify about that this
week in Washington, DC as the first ever those hearings.
So I don't know who could or should be against
wasteful spending on money that should go to the needy
and the senior citizens and the people that need the most.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
It.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
All waste, fraud and abuse does is in peril our
ability to actually take care of our social contracts for
people that should be unwelfare as people that need social Security.
And it's a classic example of Donald Trump's genius. He
takes these eighty twenty issues. Eighty percent of the country said, yeah,
we should only spend money on people that should get it.
And these people are like, look, we're spending lots of money.
(09:56):
People are taking COVID night they shouldn't get it, people
are taking welfare and when they shouldn't get it. And
the left freaks out about that too, and that's why
they have no credibility, and that's why they're losing the arguments.
And that's what the American people are on the side
of Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Well, Eric here is great talking to you. Gonna hear
his podcast. It's great, it's the Drill Down podcast, and
you can hear it it's him and the Peter Schweitzer.
It's every week and keep up the good work. We'll
talk to you soon.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Thanks Art, always great to be with you. You can
podcast at the drill down dot com.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
All right, the drill down dot com the drill down
dot com and we'll take some calls in a minute.
One eight hundred nine to one, Sean is the number.
One eight hundred nine four one Sewan. It's Mark Simone
here for Sean Hanny. You can find my podcast everywhere.
I heart Apple, Spotify, any place you get podcasts, and
I don't forget Handity. Tonight, nine o'clock Fox News Channel. Hey,
(10:48):
welcome back. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. We'll
take some calls. Let's go to uh Tommy in Texas. Tommy,
how you doing?
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Hey, good afternoon. Thank you for taking Mark. I you know,
there's a lot of corruption, there's a lot of I
guess misspending and waste and abuse that's been uncovered. My
idea is, why don't we get the government Elon Musk
and his crew to hire fifty hundred two hundred forensic
accountants and start looking back in time and come up
(11:20):
with some real accurate numbers on yes, the broadened abuse
that they've already found, how far back it goes, and
who's involved.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Let's put some of these.
Speaker 5 (11:29):
People in jail.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Now, let's just get him out of there. Let's just
find the money plot back if you can, throw them
the hell out of the government to make sure it
doesn't happen again. But thanks for calling Tommy. Forensic accountants
are good, But you know, i'd go with these nineteen
year olds, these Elon Musk guys, these big balls and
these that's his name, that's what he called himself online.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
But I have to say we all know that he
called himself that because in the hopes of one day
someone knowing who he was and having to do exactly
what we're doing on live radio and TV.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Did that because he was because he's nineteen. Well at
the time he did that, he's probably fifteen six whatever.
That's what you do when you're fifteen sixteen. So I
don't know if you know that Elon must change his.
Speaker 7 (12:13):
Fifteen year old Mark Simon did that, He's like, hey, what's.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Up, how are I Well, you know, back then there
was no Twitter. Uh so, but what we did, we
all made terrible Frank phone calls where we made up
a name. But Elon must change his name on Twitter
the other day for one day. Did you know that
I did? Yeah, he changed his name to Harry Bowles
(12:36):
bo l Z and he did that just so on
CNN they would have to say.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
It's like, if you want to talk about me and
you want to show my posts, you are going to have.
Speaker 7 (12:48):
To show it all.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah. Yeah, I was just looking at the screen. There's
a CNN we have, every station is up there. This
Jake Tapper is on there. This guy looks so mad,
he's fuming. Is it classes? They're all fogged up?
Speaker 6 (13:00):
They look so you know why they're angry because Sean
Hannity got to go to Washington, DC interview Elon Musk,
interview President Trump, sit in the Oval Office.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
And get the truth.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
And by the way, for those of you listening, Sean's
interview is going to air next week on Hannity at
nine on.
Speaker 7 (13:17):
The Fox News Channel Tuesday night. Tuesday night.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
I think, knowing Sean and the President, both of them
love to talk, I'm assuming it'll be.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
Tuesday and on Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Oh okay, yeah, Plus you got Elon in there, and
Elon also likes to talk you three of them together,
forget about it. But yeah, next week and they're mad
because they don't have access.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well they can know, you know, they have acces. Trump
loves to talk to these people. They'll talk to Kate like.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
Biden, you know, who read from a que card and
didn't know anybody's name. I mean, it's a completely different presidency.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah. I just love the You're not supposed to do this,
but I actually put it on MSNBC sometimes just I
love watching them all riled up there, so angry, so mad,
so enraged. And you know, people watch MSNBC, they think
it's like a news netw it's not. Rachel Maddow getting
a lot of flak for Wednesday Night, she did this
(14:06):
twenty minute expose on how they secretly gave a contract
to Tesla worth four hundred million and Elon Musk was
handed this contract for four hundred million. You know, the
guy's worth four hundred and four billion dollars. Four hundred
million is like a tenth of a penny to him.
It doesn't mean anything. So she went to this for
(14:26):
twelve minutes, the whole segment on this contract. Next day,
everybody's pointing out the contract was signed by Anthony Blink
and it was a Biden administration contract. They're delivering some
of the cars now, but the contract was given out
in November last year, that Trump wasn't even president.
Speaker 6 (14:42):
Let's see, this is the problem, right, The details don't matter.
They get the headline. It's all they care about. They
get people pissed off, and then they find out, oh,
by the way, we were full of it. It's like
when she had Trump's tax returns. Yeah, Mike, how what
was that?
Speaker 1 (14:54):
Like?
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Two days of tea and up and then you get
there it's like big flat and nothing.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Yeah. Remember how important it was to see Trump's We
had to audit Trump's taxes, the most important thing on earth.
But if you want to audit the government, you're hitler.
You're not allowed to look.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Well, that was the best part.
Speaker 6 (15:08):
Trump was hitler during the entire campaign. And then all
of a sudden they're like, yeah, come to the White
House have tea with me and Jill.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
I'm like, oh, is that what you do with it
with a terrorist? Okay?
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Yeah, I mean the whole thing. You know, your liberal friends,
you get crazy arguing with them. It's not their fault there.
What they think MSNBC is like a news network because
they look and they got glasses, they got bow ties.
They think it looks like a set, like a news
it's not. It's just crazy propaganda. Anyway, we'll take some
more calls in a minute. Eight hundred and nine for
one Sean. Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Follow me
(15:40):
on Instagram. Mark Simone NYC at Instagram. And as we said,
Sean is off today's big interview with Donald Trump and
Elon Musk. You'll see it Tuesday on Hannity Tuesday night. Hey,
it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. We'll take some calls.
Eight hundred nine for to one. Sean is the number.
Eight hundred one Sean. President Trump heading tomorrow Lago for
(16:03):
the weekend, will be at the Daytona five hundred A
long week, worked very, very hard. It's fascinating to watch
these Democrats. You think they're smart, you know, they're maybe
annoying and horrible, but Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer and
those types, you don't think they're really really stupid, but
(16:24):
they must be. And whoever was running the Biden White House,
hopefully one day we'll find out you look back on
how dumb they were about everything. You know, it turns
out now we found out today that President Trump has
the mug shot framed and it's up in the White House.
Right outside the Oval Office. As you walk into the
(16:46):
Oval Office, the blue hallway where you come in, in
a big gold frame, there's the mug shot and that's
the entrance the press uses, all the press have to
come in and see the mug shot. But he's so
proud of that thing. And if you go back and
study this carefully, that was the turning point. You know,
there was a period there would look like Ron DeSantis
(17:08):
will be the nominee of the name Nikki Haleey will
be the nominee. It was the mugshot that just turned
it around. That's where he started to really climbing the polls.
The mug shot did the trick. What were you people
thinking with that law fair with the mug shot And
even last night MSNBC they claimed without evidence that Biden
(17:29):
wasn't behind it. Without evidence, Biden's top guy in the
Justice Department left the Justice Farm to come run the
case in New York. He personally, he did the opening argument.
He questioned the witnesses that disgusting. Georgia Bunch. What's the
guy's name, Fannie Willis?
Speaker 7 (17:46):
Is Willis up?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
The guy? He was in the White House. Nathan Wade
put down two eight hour meetings in the White House.
That's not evidence that you.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
Can't recall, though, Mark, you can't recall did you.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
Go to a cabin with miss Willis?
Speaker 7 (18:02):
Ever?
Speaker 8 (18:05):
Ever?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Ever?
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Some of our best word of.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
A soul.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
I got you no, never, no.
Speaker 7 (18:30):
But it's almost a whole chorus. It took him to
say no, just for the listeners.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Of course, there's four hundred pictures of them in the cabin.
It's on Instagram. They're in the cabin, They're all over
the cabin. And if I were those two, I would
go hide somewhere in a cabin. Don't don't bother anybody.
But this guy was in the White House. Two eight
hour meetings. Have you ever been in an eight hour
meeting in your life? Ever? For anything? An eight hour meeting?
(18:58):
Now meeting, if it's how long is it ten minutes,
fifteen minutes, If it's something really big, it could be
an hour? What is an eight hour meeting? There was
no no coordinating it was an eight hour meeting, so well,
it will take some calls. Eight hundred and nine one,
Shawn is number. Let's go to Josie, Kansas City MAJORI Josie,
(19:19):
how you doing.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
I'm doing good. Thank you for taking my call. So
I just have cheap points. Oh oh, everyone's talking about
this and that and up and down every which way,
but no one's mentioning Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Let's keep it that way.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Woman who's still dishes from the White House. He left
the White House, Bill Clinton, you know, the whole corruption issue,
and then what happened after she lost the election? So
is she going to get investigated now?
Speaker 8 (19:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Yeah, yeah, liver alone. You know, she's like that old
woman in Sunset Boulevard, you know, at home drunk, plotting
some kind of comeback. It's never gonna happen. We don't
need to go after it.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
Why does every woman you talk about sound so terrible?
The women at Mara Largo, the women on Sunset Boulevard.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
No, the movie Sunset Bulevard to play, remember, no, Shaun,
I remember that the audience remember. Yeah. It was one
of the greatest movies ever and it was a big
Broadway show. Forever. Actually, I think it just reopened on Broadway.
But it was about an old, old year old old
movie star who'd been like from the Silent movie days
and plotting this comeback that looked absolutely ridiculous. Bill Clinton,
(20:37):
you know, this guy was the greatest, slickest politician orator.
President Hillary never made it. First time she runs. First
time she runs, a total beginner novice. Barack Obama comes
out of nowhere and takes the nomination from her. Second
time she runs, a total amateur, has never been in politics,
beats her. It's great. Every time Bill Clinton comes in
(20:59):
the house looks at her, he must just go anyway.
Let's go to James in Florida. James, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
I want you to know that I am very disappointed
in you. Mark what you just said? Leave her alone?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, leave her alone.
Speaker 9 (21:14):
I'll let you know right now. America wants accountability and
justice every time that we get these people who are
in office. They got enough lawyers that are going to
keep them out of jail till they die.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
All right, let's go after Elizabeth Warren, though, Chuck Schumer,
these people, Let's get them.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
How come you backing them up? That's all I wanted
to say, and have a nice day.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
All right, you should be a Democrat. You got that
angry kind of you. Guy should be on CNN.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
Angry though he's nice, angry you don't have a nice day.
All I don't argue with anybody who says have a
nice day. It ends in a very different way.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I'll tell you that have a nice day. Don't tell
me what to do. I'll have a bad day if
I want. Let's go to Greg in Oceanside, California. Greg,
how you doing?
Speaker 8 (21:55):
I'm doing good?
Speaker 1 (21:56):
How you doing? Let me check? Not bad? Not bad?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
That's good. Yeah I'm not here, no since id right
next to Camp Penalty where we get that uh thunder
of freedom from the base.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But uh, well that's good because.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Well, you know, when they're doing that big artillery firing,
it's up over there, the windows shaking, the booms go
really oh yeah, everybody around here here is that. You know,
they got the big artillery. You know, when they're doing
maneuvers and the practice and everything, it really gets the
windows shaken, and especially when they're doing late night stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Okay, what do you want to say?
Speaker 8 (22:35):
Greg? Yeah? I was calling up because earlier callers said
that these people that if they found that, if you
followed the government, you know, got kicked backs and stuff. Yeah,
they should actually go for those people and put them
in jail. And I think the same thing because you know,
someday the Democrats will be back in power and if
(22:56):
they don't see any repercussions from having you know, people
throwing over the stuff to go right back to their
own plane.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Yeah, that's a very good point. That's a good point. Yeah,
if they took kickback to anything like, of course they
should be prosecuted, be in jail. But a lot of them,
you gotta remember, this is what they do for a living.
Congressmen and women. It's a lot of Democrats, it's a
lot of Republicans too. You know. What they do is
they give out these contracts. They know they're overpaying. You know,
for instance, it costs forty thousand a mile to pave
(23:26):
a highway. We spend a million a mile. They do
this all the time. You know, you hear the Pentagon
bought a screwdriver for one thousand dollars. They know it's
that way, but they deliberately overpay. Everybody give out these contracts.
In exchange they're getting massive donations for their campaign, they're
getting votes, they're getting all kinds of stuff. You know,
(23:47):
Donald Trump, when he first became president, first term, just
as he's coming in, it turns out air Force one
is getting a new Air Force one. They're making the plane,
and they send them the bill and it's like seven billion,
which is uh, overcharging like crazy. But that's what you
do every time, and nobody says a word. Well, think
about this. They didn't realize for the first time in history,
(24:09):
the guy that just got elected has bought fifteen planes
in his lifetime. He knows exactly what they cost. The
guy owned an airline once, an actual airline that's Trump Shuttle.
He knows exactly what planes costs. He starts looking through
the itemized bill, calls up the chairman of Boeing and
said seven billion. I see three billion here.
Speaker 7 (24:28):
Let's see this is the difference.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 6 (24:29):
So you have Trump and you have maybe like a
handful of senators and a handful of congressmen that have
actually had private professions, whether they're doctors, the lawyers, they've
owned private business. You know, we had a congressman on
here once his family owned like a chain of grocery stores.
He actually knew the cost of food, how much it took,
you know, to bring it in, to sell it, so
on and so forth.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Many of these people, you.
Speaker 6 (24:51):
Know, Schumer, Pelosi, Kennedy, you know, you know, these are
people that have been at McConnell. I mean, he's the worst.
And it's like for me, it's like, you know, it's
us against them in the sense that whether they're Dems
or Republicans, if they're not working for the will of
the people, then they're working against the will of.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
The what in their defense Schumer. Guys like Schumer is
in the business of donor favors. This is all he does.
All there's a creep creep donor.
Speaker 6 (25:17):
Is a lifelong favor lifelong politicians, and he's not in
the business of favors.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
He is in the business of whatever makes Chucky Schumer's
bank account bigger.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Well, that's what it is. Every donor, even though I
hate to say it, even Republican donors here in New York,
they'll tell you, I said, what do you keep supporting Schumer?
Because I could wake that guy up at three in
the morning.
Speaker 7 (25:35):
He'll do what I asked him anything, no question about it.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
And that's what they do. You see this microphone electro
voice are I certainly here are twenty. I'd say this
costs about three hundred and fifty dollars. Now if the
government bought this microphone six thousand dollars.
Speaker 7 (25:51):
You know what's so funny?
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Do you remember when Michelle Obama was running the you know,
the healthcare dot of and shape was taking all those bids,
and they took the bid for like the highest bid,
and it turned out that it was like, you know,
her cousin's sons, uncle's grandmother or whatever.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
I'm like, all right, you know what I mean? Like
I could have had a college student build up for
three thousand dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Like stop, even if it even work now, even the
hotel rooms for the oligis. You know, if you book
a hotel, let's say you're having your wedding and you
call the hotel, we like to book twenty rooms. You
get a rate it's like half price. You know, if
you're a big corporation, if it's one thousand dollars a night,
you're paying two fifty at night. Because you're a big corporation,
you buy lots of hotel rooms. When they took the
entire hotel in New York for the migrants. A musk
(26:32):
uncovered this. They actually paid double the normal rate. They're
buying the whole hotel for a year, every room that's
the special rate. Double them.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
But this is what's happening here in New York. I mean,
look at what the comptroller just came out and said, Yeah,
they're charging at you know, double their prices at the
Roosevelt Hotel, which once was a beautiful hotel.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Yeah, oh my god. And now it's run down. It's
migrant city. It's disgusting, and it's run on forty fifth
Madison and one of the most beautiful aparts Manhattan. And
now you got what hotel rooms that probably should go
cost I don't know, somewhere between five and six hundred
bucks a night for a really nice room, and now
you're paying, you know, four thousand because.
Speaker 7 (27:10):
You're milking the government.
Speaker 1 (27:11):
Absolutely, absolutely the Roosevelt Hotel. If you ever watch the
show mad Men, that's the hotel they were always going
to the ballroom of this d I used.
Speaker 7 (27:18):
To be the house band there. I used to play
there every weekend.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Yes, Roosevelt Hotel Hotel. There was a singer in all
those bands I was good bye.
Speaker 7 (27:26):
It was beautiful.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Go by the Roosevelt. Now there's laundry hanging out the window.
It is awful, awful. Anyway, we'll take some calls in
a minute. Eight hundred and three to two one, Sean.
Mark Simone here. You follow me on Instagram, It's uh
Mark Simone. And when I see at Instagram, we can
get my podcast any place you get podcasts. I don't
forget Hannity tonight nine o'clock and the big interview with
Trump and Musk. Sean just did it. It's gonna air
(27:51):
Tuesday night at nine Hannity on the Fox News Channel. Okay,
it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Eight hundred nine
one on is the number, eight hundred nine four one, Sean.
Let's go to uh Neil Brooklyn, New York. Neil. How
you doing?
Speaker 10 (28:08):
Thanks?
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Mark?
Speaker 10 (28:08):
I mean you could help me with this. I searched
the internet. I can't get an answer to it. When
when the election ended on the fifth or the sixth
of November, was Trump holding a majority of the popular
vote or not?
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Yeah? Yeah, you won the popular vote.
Speaker 10 (28:27):
So okay, I know there was some lesser candidates that
draw off some votes. But it's a talking point for
the left now that he doesn't he never won the majority.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Well, that's what they do. They make up all kinds
of stuff, bloodbaths, Charlottesville, they make up stuff. That's what
they do in the left.
Speaker 10 (28:46):
Do you think they padded Kamala's votes after the fifth
and the sixth?
Speaker 1 (28:50):
And you know, well in that in California, believe it
or not, the laws are so crazy in California, after
the election's over, you're allowed to send in l in
votes for up to a week and they don't have
to be signed or have an address on them. So
they did pat it there and they also stole probably
a couple of House seats that way. But no, Trump
won the popular vote. But if you watch MSNBC or
(29:14):
CNN New York Times, well you'll see a lot of
false information happens all the time.
Speaker 10 (29:20):
Well, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
All right, how many times did you watch the strongest
toughest border bill ever? Did you ever read that bill?
There was nothing tough in that bill.
Speaker 7 (29:33):
In fact, the border is secure.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Yeah, that border bill made the remember what it was
like under Biden five thousand a day crossing? It made
that permit.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
What was worse was when they said where are the children?
And may Orcus and Bessarah both said.
Speaker 7 (29:49):
We don't know.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
And then you had Tom Tiffany who actually had the
cojones to actually say to Bessara, do you know that
you are sending illegal immigrant small children to rothels, two
prostitutes to pimps to be sex trafficked. You're actually doing it.
You are the biggest consumer. And he's like, uh uh uh,
I do not have an answer for this.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Into this it's all bs.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
You notice those guys are all hiding him. Whence the
last time you saw it with Christopher ray My orchest
are all hiding what happened to Joe Biden? This guy.
I just don't think you'll ever see this guy again.
I'll never come out of his house again. Remember that
was that movie two thousand and one, A Space Obyssee.
He's that old guy at the end.
Speaker 7 (30:26):
Oh, I thought you're gonna say weekend a Bernie's. I
was going on a different.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Weekend at Bernie's. It's a good day for him. You'll
never see that.
Speaker 7 (30:33):
He is always on the beach facing the other way.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
Although he's got a book deal, believe it or not.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
Oh, my god, was he writing in a crayon? Give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
It's a way of paying him off. You get a
book deal and uh, presidential library. We'll remind me to
talk about this the Nextor where should Trump have his
presidential library? Biden is supposed to have one, but they
can't raise any money. Nobody will get any money for it,
so they're talking about maybe a bookmobile or something. Can't
raise a penny for his library.
Speaker 7 (31:03):
You should talk to Zelenski. I hear they're close.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Yeah. Oh, we'll get to that in the next hour too.
What's going on with Ukraine? We'll get to the hostages
and more. It's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity. Sean
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